Today's Opinions

Not even a week into a diet and I am already realizing just one package of Double Stuffed Oreos, with a giant glass of whole milk in a frosted glass is cheaper than eating apples and reduced fat peanut butter.
Recently my wife went to the doctor and had her cholesterol and lipids (whatever those are) checked.
Given her past medical history and her family’s medical history, it was no surprise that both were found to be almost four times the level that they should be.

FRANKFORT - The General Assembly wrapped up an especially busy week on Friday, putting the final touches on a number of prominent bills.
None were more far-reaching than the one that Gov. Beshear signed on Thursday. It’s a sensible first step toward trying to slow the growth of a prison population that is nearly 50 percent larger than it was a decade ago.
We now spend well over $400 million a year to house about 21,000 prisoners, and that is taking money from other programs like education.

FRANKFORT -Very few truly transformational reforms ever make it through the legislative process. Our two-chamber system was designed by the framers for just that purpose -- to slow down hasty overhauls and focus on incremental changes -- a tweak here and there to fix the current problems, rather than scrapping entire systems.

I’m usually somewhat sluggish about flipping the calendar.
I don’t know why. Perhaps someone with a bunch of letters after his name would say it has something to do with not wanting to let go.
However, it was with exuberance that my February pages hit the recycle bin and heralded in the lamb’s version of March.
I have three calendars in my office; two are flipped and one is a rip-away.
It was with great fanfare that I tore off February.
My theory:
This winter has been interminably long.

Kathleen Judy was born December of 1900 and attended Henry School on Judy Ridge Road in Harrison County. On Feb. 8, 1917 (at the age of 16) she took the teaching exam to receive her certificate. Judy taught at Henry School in Harrison County and earned approximately $30 a month. She married Ora Nicholas Marsh and had four sons, Charles, George and John Marsh, and the late Neal Marsh, all of Harrison County.

To the editor:
America has reached a tipping point. Not only has the federal government grown in spending but in its reach to state and local governments.
The federal government now dominates activity that was traditionally reserved to the states, leaving little or no room for state-level innovation in policy areas such as education, transportation, health care, welfare and even law enforcement. They have so grossly expanded public-sector debt that, as of today, each and every man, woman and child carries a debt burden of over $45,000.